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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting adding text with sed Post 302617459 by Corona688 on Monday 2nd of April 2012 04:46:40 PM
Old 04-02-2012
I think I figured it out. You're using / as the separator, so when your URL contains / , that mangles the expression.

Use something else instead, like #

Code:
sed 's#</body>#<A HREF='"$index"'>'"$description"'</A>\
</body>#' "$index"

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ldbsearch

LDBSEARCH(1)							  [FIXME: manual]						      LDBSEARCH(1)

NAME

       ldbsearch - Search for records in a LDB database

SYNOPSIS

       ldbsearch [-h] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-i] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes]

DESCRIPTION

       ldbsearch searches a LDB database for records matching the specified expression (see the ldapsearch(1) manpage for a description of the
       expression format). For each record, the specified attributes are printed.

OPTIONS

       -h
	   Show list of available options.

       -H <ldb-url>
	   LDB URL to connect to. See ldb(3) for details.

       -s one|sub|base
	   Search scope to use. One-level, subtree or base.

       -i
	   Read search expressions from stdin.

       -b basedn
	   Specify Base DN to use.

ENVIRONMENT

       LDB_URL
	   LDB URL to connect to (can be overrided by using the -H command-line option.)

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       ldb(3), ldbedit(1)

AUTHOR

       ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell[1].

       If you wish to report a problem or make a suggestion then please see the http://ldb.samba.org/ web site for current contact and maintainer
       information.

       This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

	1. Andrew Tridgell
	   http://samba.org/~tridge/

[FIXME: source] 						    04/19/2012							      LDBSEARCH(1)
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